Back and Better than Ever: Rain, Singing, and the New Mission President

Hello family and friends! How are you all doing? I hope all is going well.

Things are going well out here in the Pacific. Monday we had nothing too big happen but it was still a good p-day. Tuesday things were okay. We had some of our lessons get cancelled and because of that we did a lot of going up and down the hillls of this area. But a couple of the blessings of the day are that at one of our last lessons we got a new investigator whose name is Henry. He is 19 and is currently staying with his friends here in the ward. And after that lesson we had a lesson with an RLDS member who says that once he gets his answer that this is the way to go he and his whole family will get baptized! Yay! I really hope that works out, but he is going to have to give up some of his beliefs and learn some new things to really be converted to this church.

Then on Wednesday things were about the same. Some of our lessons were cancelled but we didn't end up going everywhere, up and down. Thursday we had a lesson with an inactive member and his little gang of friends, this inactive member being an ex-drug dealer boss of Polynesia saying gang of friends is almost true, but he doesn't do that anymore, and he really wants to come back to the church. We did our lesson on the last question of the plan of salvation. Vatea, the inactive member, is very serious about the lessons and whenever his friends are there they all come over and listen to what is going on. It's pretty nice. I really enjoy it. And the lesson went well, they asked good questions and we were able to answer them. It's a great learning opportunity. Sometimes in life we just need to ask questions, we need to ask more questions in order to know more. There was a 70 that gave a talk on that out here, Elder Pearson, and he committed us to ask more questions to Heavenly Father. That's something I need to do better on. And I will do better on it.

Friday, it rained super hard. My pants got covered in mud. And I was soaked, but this time I didn't get wet thanks to my rain jacket, not like the last time where I got more wet than my companion who wasn't wearing a nice rain jacket. In our district meeting we talked about how to get our investigators ready for baptism. We have an investigator that only needs to have the okay from her husband and she and her kids can be baptized. And we talked about talking to her about fasting, and other ways to help her out. It was a good meeting.

Saturday was a crazy day because I got to go to the temple! Yeah! For the second time since I got here. It was great. And I really enjoyed it. The Spirit was strong and I got to learn. The Lord is all about teaching us, but sometimes we are really stubborn and don't want to listen to Him as He tries to teach us.

Sunday came around and I was sick. My throat hurt, my stomach didn't feel good, my breakfast came up not long after having eaten and I ended up taking a pill that knocked me out for 3 hours. So I didn't get to go to church but I did get to go to the missionary concert. The concert was for the investigators and as a way to say goodbye to president Sinjoux who finished today. The concert went well, according to what everyone told us, and we all got to say goodbye to President Sinjoux, one by one. And the one phrase that he said to me as we said goodbye was "take care of yourself." As I think about it now I find it rather fitting for how often I have been sick and considering that I was sick that morning. Ha.

President Bize is pretty cool. We'll see how things go the next few weeks. Things will change and I'll keep you all posted if anything happens (like getting a car in the next week, ha, that would be pretty awesome, but I doubt it for the moment).

I love you family and friends, and I hope that all is going well. Keep up and keep going on.

Love,
Elder Squires